<h1>COCO 2016 Object Detection Task</h1>
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<h1>1. Overview</h1>
<p>The COCO Object Detection Task is designed to push the state of the art in object detection forward. Teams are encouraged to compete in either (or both) of two object detection tasks: using bounding box output or object segmentation output. For full details of this task please see the <a href="#detection-eval">detection evaluation</a> page.</p>
<p>This task is part of the <a href="http://image-net.org/challenges/ilsvrc+coco2016">ImageNet and COCO Visual Recognition</a> workshop at ECCV 2016. For further details about the joint workshop please visit the workshop page. Participants are encouraged to participate in both the COCO and ImageNet detection tasks. Please also see the concurrent <a href="#keypoints-2016">COCO 2016 Keypoint Detection Task</a>.</p>
<p>The COCO train, validation, and test sets, containing more than 200,000 images and 80 object categories, are available on the <a href="#download">download</a> page. All object instances are annotated with a detailed segmentation mask. Annotations on the training and validation sets (with over 500,000 object instances segmented) are publicly available.</p>
<p>This is the second iteration of the detection task and it closely follows the <a href="#detection-2015">COCO 2015 Object Detection Task</a>. In particular, the same data and metrics are being used for this year's task.</p>

<h1>2. Dates</h1>
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  <div class="jsonktxt">June 1, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Challenge officially announced</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">September 16, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">[Extended] Submission deadline (11:59 PST)</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">October 2, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Challenge results released</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">October 9, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Winners present at ECCV 2016 Workshop</div>
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<h1>3. Organizers</h1>
<div>Tsung-Yi Lin (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Yin Cui (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Genevieve Patterson (Brown)</div>
<div>Matteo Ruggero Ronchi (Caltech)</div>
<div>Ross Girshick (Facebook AI Research)</div>
<div>Piotr Dollár (Facebook AI Research)</div>

<h1>4. Award Committee</h1>
<div>Yin Cui (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Genevieve Patterson (Brown)</div>
<div>Matteo Ruggero Ronchi (Caltech)</div>
<div>Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Lubomir Bourdev (UC Berkeley)</div>
<div>Michael Maire (TTI-Chicago)</div>
<div>Pietro Perona (Caltech)</div>
<div>Deva Ramanan (CMU)</div>
